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TIL: A hedge fund has 35 days to close out a "failure to deliver" on a short sale.

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4NPg TIL Carl Sagan once said “An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence.”
1JXD TIL that scientists predict that by 2022 we will have self repairing bridges. (Also list of 110 predictions for the next 110 years)
KOEPa TIL Yogi Bear used to be the mascot of a chicken restaurant franchise, and when they all closed, the statues were dumped in the middle of a forest. This site became a tourist attraction in and of itself, known as the "Yogi Bear Graveyard".
aXbo TIL that the 20,000 landmines used during the Britain/Argentina conflict over the Falklands have led to a booming population of penguins. Cows and humans avoid the fenced-off fields, but penguins are too light to set off the mines. The deadly fields have turned into penguin sanctuaries.
epD1k TIL that King's School, Canterbury, is Britain's oldest public school; and is arguably the oldest continuously operating school in the world, since education on the Abbey and Cathedral grounds has been uninterrupted since AD 597.